In Liu Lang's previous life, he once heard his father say that when he was a child, he had to do housework when he was less than five or six years old, he had to help take care of his brothers when he was seven or eight years old, and when he was a teenager, he went out every day to collect briquettes and wood to supplement the family income.
, Sometimes if you make a mistake, you will be beaten and scolded by your parents. How can you be held up as a pearl like Liu Lang was when he was a child.
In the era when Liu Lang's father lived, every family had several children, and the eldest child was often more than 20 years older than the youngest. For example, there was a sixteen-year age difference between Liu Lang's father and Liu Lang's uncle.
You must know that his grandfather is only sixteen years older than his father. It can be said that as the eldest brother, his father is actually equivalent to his father.
Of course, the adults in the family cannot manage the many children, so the older ones can only take care of the younger ones. But one or two is fine, but if there are three or four, then they can only be left in a wild state, just like Liu Lang
My old uncle, he goes to and from school by himself every day. If there is food at home, he will take care of himself. If there is no food, he will survive. Anyway, he will not die of hunger. The clothes he wears are all worn by his brothers. As for the children's study, where is it?
Will anyone care?
But in Liu Lang's generation, the situation was different. When the country implemented reform and opening up, it also started family planning. A phrase that often appeared in newspapers was "Family planning is good, the state will provide for the elderly...!"
Well, whether to support the elderly is a question that will be decades away. The problem now is that each family has become a child, and the child's status immediately soars. All family members regard this child as a treasure, and the entire society
Family relationships have undergone tremendous changes.
In Liu Lang's previous life, after the 1990s, the term "post-80s" appeared in society.
The older generation is full of ambivalence towards the generation born in the 1980s, and most of them are dissatisfied and angry. They believe that this generation is selfish, ungrateful, disobedient, and full of rebellion.
In their mouths, this generation seems to have become a fallen generation.
But what about the reality? As the post-1990s and post-2000s grew up, this argument never appeared again. Although Liu Lang’s generation is an only child, they have also experienced great changes and developments in society since they were young.
The drastic social changes between the planned economy and the market economy have also been felt one by one. The huge changes in society have brought huge contradictory impacts to the minds of these young people who have not yet developed their worldview. This is a characteristic brought to them by the times.
, definitely can’t be summed up by “post-80s generation”.
At the same time, the pressure on this generation is beyond the imagination of the older generation. We can’t see it now, but twenty years from now, this generation will first face the pressure of employment. In thirty years,
Later, as only children, they faced the pressure of supporting their family. When they were around forty years old, their parents began to get older, and they had to bear the pressure of providing for their parents alone. In Liu Lang's view, people of their generation
The pressure they shoulder is definitely greater than that of the older generation, because the older generation has more brothers and sisters and can share the burden, but what about them?
Before he was reborn, he and his wife raised a daughter. They treated this daughter like the apple of their eye. As long as they could, they would provide her with various resources. Although there was pressure, the well-off level could still be maintained, but the couple's
Both parents have entered the elderly stage. Even if the four old people have wages, they do not need much help from the couple. However, if one of them gets sick, it will be fatal. By then, the two of them will have to take care of the children as well as the children.
Old man, this kind of pressure can simply crush people, and imagining it will make Liu Lang shudder, but in this way they can only stand up straight and try their best, because no one will help you, this is the "responsibility" given to them by history,
Can't push it away at all.
Therefore, in Liu Lang's view, although his generation is now regarded as the apple of their eyes by their parents and grandparents, and was labeled with highly emotional terms such as "post-80s generation" and "degenerate generation" when they were growing up, when they wait until
When these people grow up, they are destined to become a "tragic generation."
There was a commotion in the auditorium. It took half an hour before the three teams could barely stand up. The organizers were also sweating profusely due to the children's troubles.
"Come on, follow me to the stage first!"
The group, which was between one and two years old, was first brought to the ceremony stage by the organizers. There were about twenty children, and Liu Lang was among them.
"Listen, each group of six children will compete according to my orders. The one who completes the task fastest will win the prize!"
The one in the lead said.
There is a huge stall on the stage, which is twenty meters long. Everyone is standing on one side, and on the other side there are a lot of toys, such as building blocks, jigsaw puzzles, and pencils and erasers.
There are about a dozen kinds of things.
"The first competition is to see who of the children can walk the fastest. As long as you walk across the carpet and get those toys, they belong to the children. Okay, you six parents put the children here, and then let the other parent come
Go over there and let your children crawl over as quickly as possible!"
This person used crawling, because in his eyes, even if children around one year old can already walk, they will still use crawling, the most familiar way of moving forward, and only children around two years old will be truly proficient.
Use your legs to walk.
In fact, this is also true. When the parents put their children on the carpet, three of the children immediately fell down on all fours, and then sat there like puppies and looked around. The remaining three children stood still, just trembling.
It's very unstable.
"Son, come to grandma quickly!"
"Baby, come to grandma quickly, grandma will give you candy!"
On the other side of the carpet, six parents kept clapping their hands and shouting loudly to attract the attention of their children.
The six little guys stopped in place at first, looking at the parents in front of them.
"Child, go to your grandma quickly!"
"Baby, go to your mother's place quickly!"
Parents here try their best to direct their children's attention to the other side.
This worked immediately. The six children turned their heads and finally saw their relatives on the other side, but their subsequent reactions were different.
Three children started to crawl over, but they stopped again after just two steps. They looked in front and back, as if they were making a decision in their hearts.
One child also crawled a few steps, but he didn't seem to have a good relationship with the grandma across from him, so he turned around and crawled back again.
The other two children suddenly stood up and walked forward, but they obviously lacked strength. They just walked out of the five or six cloths and sat down on the ground with a "pop". One child was okay, but he was a little overwhelmed sitting on the ground, but the other child
One child immediately started crying, and the two children who were crawling forward also started crying, with snot and tears flowing down their faces.
"Child, come on, come on!"
"Baby, don't cry, I'll give you a toy!"
The cries of the children were mixed with the shouts of the parents, and the scene was chaotic.
It took a full five minutes for the first child to crawl to the other side. A staff member placed a pile of toys in front of the child. The child looked at it for a few times and then picked up a box of erasers.
"Kid, rubber is worthless, take this!"
The parent obviously didn't take the idea and put a small box of building blocks in the child's hand. However, the child was very temperamental and pushed the building blocks and found the rubber.
"Okay, this eraser is yours! Go backstage and I'll give you certificates later!"
A staff member led the family backstage.
It took this group a total of more than ten minutes to complete the competition. Two children were really unable to complete the competition. In the end, their parents carried them to the other side. They also received prizes, but they couldn't choose by themselves.
Next is the second group, and these children are the same. It took a long time to complete the competition.
Liu Lang looked at these children from behind and was really dumbfounded. He must have been like this back then.